At the Back of the North Wind Illustrated - online book

A Complete Illustrated children's fantasy book by George MacDonald.

glorious of trumpet-ejaculations without the defiance in it; like the sound of falling- water without the clatter and clash in it: it was like all of them and neither of them—all of them without their faults, each of them without its peculiarity: after all, it was more like his

mother's voice than anything else in the world.

" Diamond, dear," she said, "beaman. What is fearful to you is not the least fearful to me."

"But it can't hurt you," mur­mured Diamond, " for you're it"

" Then if I'm it, and have you in my arms, how can it hurt you?"

"Oh yes! I

see," whispered

Diamond. "But it looks so dreadful, and it pushes

me about so."

"Yes, it does, my dear. That is what it was sent for."

At the same moment, a peal of thunder which shook Diamond's heart against the sides of his bosom hurtled out of the heavens: I cannot say out of the sky, for